He and Dick gazed long in the direction in which Harper's Ferry lay, and they listened, too, to the faint mutter of the guns among the hills.

Before dawn, scouts came in, saying that there had been hard fighting off toward Harper's Ferry, and that Lee with the other division of the Southern army was retreating into a peninsula formed by the junction of the river Antietam with the Potomac, where he would await the coming of Jackson, after taking Harper's Ferry.
"Jackson hasn't taken Harper's Ferry yet," said Dick, when he heard the news.

"Many of Banks' veterans of the valley are there, and, our men instead of being crushed by defeat, are always improved by it." "Still, I wish we'd march," said Warner.

"I didn't come here merely to go into camp.

I might as well have stayed in the hospital." Nevertheless they moved at daylight.